The religion of the American Negro slave
Subtitle: his attitude toward life and death
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: African Americans; Religion; Slaves; Religious life; Songs and music; Music; Spirituals (Songs)
Other titles: Journal of Negro history.; Church in the Southern Black community.
Description: In this 1912 article for the Journal of Negro History, Wilson discusses the religious behavior of American slaves between 1619 and the close of the Civil War. He begins with a short discussion of the religious practices the slaves brought from Africa, and contends that in America they adapted to the "Christian atmosphere" and acquired a primitive Christianity that had its emphasis on heaven. He defines their religious lifestyle in terms of acceptance of struggle and belief in the next life, both of which, in his view, mark the slaves' redemptive exposure to American Christianity.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection The Church in the Southern Black community.

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Transcribed from: The religion of the American Negro slave : his attitude toward life and death. p. 41-71. Caption title. Originally published in: The Journal of Negro history. Vol. 8, [no. 1, January] 1923. "This diessertation was submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago in candidacy for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, March 1921, by Gold Refined Wilson."--P. 41. Signed at the end of the article: G.R. Wilson.

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